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Mathematical recreations and essays

by: Ball, W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse), 1850-1925

Publication date: 1914

Topics: Geometry, Cryptography, Ciphers

Publisher: London, Macmillan

Collection: Wellesley_College_Library; blc; americana

Contributor: Wellesley College Library

Language: English

Arithmetical recreations.--Geometrical recreations.--Mechanical recreations.--Chessboard recreations.--Magic squares.--Unicursal problems.--Kirkman's school-girls problem.--Miscellaneous problems.--The mathematical tripos.--Three classical geometrical problems.--The parallel postulate.--Insolubility of the algebraic quintic.--Mersenne's numbers.--String figures.--Astrology.--Cryptographs and ciphers.--Hyper-space.--Time and its measurement.--Matter and ether theories

Advertising matter: p. 493-506

Includes bibliographical references